Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...persistence." Hundreds of scientists have contributed to the development of WWF's Conservation Science Program and identified over 800 distinct terrestrial ecoregions across the globe.1Robert G. Bailey, Description of the Ecoregions...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...Political Economy of Southern Racism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987). Georgia had the second highest number of lynchings from 1890–1900.75Susan Olzak, "The Political Context of Competition: Lynching and Urban Racial...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...problematic as his sweeping condemnation of progressives. Working-class African Americans escape the pitfalls of the authenticity debate because they supposedly "have all the authenticity they need" (297). In a similarly...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...aspirational bonds. Addressing a mostly black audience at First Baptist Church before setting foot on the Pettus Bridge, Hillary Clinton shifted into the kind of exaggerated drawl that falls painfully...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...can be objectively understood outside time and space" (7). Unfortunately, this section of Swift to Wrath falls into the trap the editors hoped to avoid by presenting a series of...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...subject’s glamour or moralizing over its ugliness, two common pitfalls for anyone writing about New Orleans. Maunsel White, Map 1814–1815 New Orleans, 1815. From Library of Congress Map Collections, 2007627049....
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...and to sketch the outlines of a more hopeful future" (17). Yet it is here that their otherwise outstanding book falls short, failing to visualize that hopeful future—or even progress...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...the Throat," New York Times, July 5, 2014, accessed July 5, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/05/nyregion/recalling-sticky-hot-job-before-old-domino-sugar-factory-falls.html. is dedicated to "the unpaid and overworked artisans who have refined our sweet tastes from the cane...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...everybody online) will have access to high quality information and ideas. At the same time, it is important to remember and consider the structures and shortfalls of the Wikipedia model....
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...imagination slows down, and Zeitlin falters as his mythic backdrop falls away. The film finally picks up when it returns to the wasteland, although it makes a second detour to...